Failure to report COVID-19 data to the National Health Safety Network (NHSN) and infection prevention & control deficiencies have been among the top survey citations for nursing home providers, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would expand and extend COVID-era respiratory illness reporting requirements under a provision of the recently proposed Home Health Prospective Payment ...

The CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network has announced new capabilities for long-term care infection reporting, healthcare worker influenza reporting and dialysis reporting, according to an ...

Long-term care facilities have long had written standards, policies, and procedures for infection control, including “when” and “to whom” possible incidents of communicable diseases should be reported ...

Healthcare organizations should consider auditing healthcare-acquired infection data prior to reporting to the National Healthcare Safety Network, according to a study published in Infection Control ...

The Interim Final Rule, which become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register on Friday, May 8, establishes a new subsection (g) at 42 C.F.R. § 483.80 (infection control), which ...

Hospitals participating in the CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program are required to submit their data within the revised influenza module. Axion Health has established an electronic ...

EMResource and JX Connector streamline data integration to provide hospital capacity and healthcare resource situational awareness, creating a common operating picture for public health, healthcare, ...